60 http://www.prwebpodcast.com A Top 30 Stream of Michael Rabinoff Press Releases (in MP3 format) via PRWeb podEditor@emediawire.com (PRWeb) podMaster@emediawire.com Mon, 06 Oct 2008 07:04:48 -0700 Michael Rabinoff http://www.prweb.com/prwebrss.gif 130 49 http://prwebpodcast.com Copyright PRWeb International, Inc. en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss A Top 30 Stream of Michael Rabinoff Press Releases (in MP3 format) via PRWeb A Top 30 Stream of Michael Rabinoff Press Releases (in MP3 format) via PRWeb podEditor@emediawire.com PR Web PRWeb no http://www.prweb.com/releases/2007/1/prweb498757.htm http://www.prweb.com/releases/2007/1/prweb498757.htm Harvard University researchers just confirmed findings from the state of Massachusetts that cigarette companies have increased nicotine levels in cigarettes by about 10-11% since 1997. Dr. Michael Rabinoff, a board certified psychiatrist on the faculty of the Department of Psychiatry at UCLA, expert on tobacco issues and author of Ending the Tobacco Holocaust :How Big Tobacco Affects our Health, Pocketbook, and PoliticalFreedom, and What We Can Do About It also points out that besides using increased nicotine levels to make cigarettes more addictive, tobacco companies use product engineering and many other chemical tricks to increase the addictive properties of cigarettes. [PRWeb Jan 20, 2007] http://www.prweb.com/releases/2007/1/prweb498757.htm Mon, 22 Jan 2007 14:22:14 -0800 podcrew@extrahoop.com http://www.TobaccoBook.com). Some of those chemical tricks include: Ammonia technology. Ammonia generating formulas, such as the combination of diammonium hydroxide, pectin, and ammonium hydroxide increase nicotine transfer from tobacco into smoke. Ammonia technology, reconstituted tobacco, and tobacco essence are utilized to increase freebase nicotine, and to have front-end lift (where cigarettes are engineered to have the highest level of nicotine in the first puffs). Increased free base nicotine may lead to increased distribution, faster distribution of nicotine in lungs, faster crossing of membranes, faster central nervous system penetration, and greater concentration crossing membranes at lungs and central nervous system. All of this can lead to increased impact and addictive effect. Anesthetics such as menthol, benzaldehyde, benzoic acid, benzyl alcohol, carvacrol, cinnamaldehyde, cinnamic acid, guaiacol, linalnyl acetate, and thymol have a numbing effect on the respiratory tract, masking irritation from cigarette smoke. According to a report in the medical journal Chest, 76% of black smokers choose menthol brands compared to 23% of white smokers. The menthol brands are associated with higher levels of nicotine and carbon monoxide, and appear to be associated with increased health risks as compared to nonmenthol brands. Bronchodilators such as cocoa, glycyrrhizin (a component of licorice), and caffeine open the airways and allow the smoke to be drawn more deeply into the lungs. Levulinic acid binds to nicotine receptors in the brain, and increases the brain's response to nicotine. Sugars are extensively added to cigarettes, especially "reducing sugars" used for the ammonia technology processes that increase vapor freebase nicotine. In fact, a 1990 Brown & William study found that 11.2-12.9% of Marlboro cigarettes were sugars. (Some of the sugars in tobacco are natural, but tobacco companies also add significant amounts of sugars). According to Victor DeNoble, a former scientist at Phillip Morris, industry scientists suspected that acetaldehyde, produced by burning sugars, could enhance the addictive effects of tobacco. In the early 1980s, he used rats in researching the behavioral effects of acetaldehyde or nicotine alone, and of acetaldehyde combined with nicotine. He found that the product of acetaldehyde and dopamine was highly addictive, providing evidence that a compound in cigarettes other than nicotine could lead to addiction. (He observed that rats will repeatedly press a bar to obtain acetaldehyde). Furthermore, the experiments of Philip Morris (PM) scientists found that the addictive effect of acetaldehyde is "synergistic" with... To read the press release in full goto http://www.prweb.com/releases/2007/1/prweb498757.htm]]> Joshua Tyree Increasing Nicotine Levels Isn't the Only Chemical Trick Tobacco Companies Use to Addict New Smokers and to Keep Current Smokers Addicted http://www.TobaccoBook.com). Some of those chemical tricks include: Ammonia technology. Ammonia generating formulas, such as the combination of diammonium hydroxide, pectin, and ammonium hydroxide increase nicotine transfer from tobacco into smoke. Ammonia technology, reconstituted tobacco, and tobacco essence are utilized to increase freebase nicotine, and to have front-end lift (where cigarettes are engineered to have the highest level of nicotine in the first puffs). Increased free base nicotine may lead to increased distribution, faster distribution of nicotine in lungs, faster crossing of membranes, faster central nervous system penetration, and greater concentration crossing membranes at lungs and central nervous system. All of this can lead to increased impact and addictive effect. Anesthetics such as menthol, benzaldehyde, benzoic acid, benzyl alcohol, carvacrol, cinnamaldehyde, cinnamic acid, guaiacol, linalnyl acetate, and thymol have a numbing effect on the respiratory tract, masking irritation from cigarette smoke. According to a report in the medical journal Chest, 76% of black smokers choose menthol brands compared to 23% of white smokers. The menthol brands are associated with higher levels of nicotine and carbon monoxide, and appear to be associated with increased health risks as compared to nonmenthol brands. Bronchodilators such as cocoa, glycyrrhizin (a component of licorice), and caffeine open the airways and allow the smoke to be drawn more deeply into the lungs. Levulinic acid binds to nicotine receptors in the brain, and increases the brain's response to nicotine. Sugars are extensively added to cigarettes, especially "reducing sugars" used for the ammonia technology processes that increase vapor freebase nicotine. In fact, a 1990 Brown & William study found that 11.2-12.9% of Marlboro cigarettes were sugars. (Some of the sugars in tobacco are natural, but tobacco companies also add significant amounts of sugars). According to Victor DeNoble, a former scientist at Phillip Morris, industry scientists suspected that acetaldehyde, produced by burning sugars, could enhance the addictive effects of tobacco. In the early 1980s, he used rats in researching the behavioral effects of acetaldehyde or nicotine alone, and of acetaldehyde combined with nicotine. He found that the product of acetaldehyde and dopamine was highly addictive, providing evidence that a compound in cigarettes other than nicotine could lead to addiction. (He observed that rats will repeatedly press a bar to obtain acetaldehyde). Furthermore, the experiments of Philip Morris (PM) scientists found that the addictive effect of acetaldehyde is "synergistic" with... To read the press release in full goto http://www.prweb.com/releases/2007/1/prweb498757.htm]]> 00:15:00 no http://www.prweb.com/releases/quit_smoking/resolution/prweb493990.htm http://www.prweb.com/releases/quit_smoking/resolution/prweb493990.htm According to the U.S. Surgeon General, 70 percent of smokers want to quit each year, 46 percent of smokers try to quit each year, but less than 7.5 percent of smokers succeed in quitting for a year (http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/tobacco/smokfact.htm). Let Dr. Michael Rabinoff, an expert in smoking cessation, help you keep your New Year's resolution by following his top ten tips to quit smoking. [PRWeb Jan 1, 2007] http://www.prweb.com/releases/quit_smoking/resolution/prweb493990.htm Fri, 29 Dec 2006 16:33:42 -0800 podcrew@extrahoop.com http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/tobacco/smokfact.htm). Let Dr. Michael Rabinoff, an expert in smoking cessation, help you keep your New Year's resolution by following his top ten tips to quit smoking. 1. Have a "big enough why." Spend time thinking about why you want to quit. What are your personal reasons to quit? Then write down the reasons. Post your written reasons on your refrigerator and elsewhere, and let the list remind you every day of these important reasons. It's your life, so be motivated to succeed. Some famous motivational speakers and "gurus" use "leverage" to give the smoker motivation to quit. Tony Robbins, for example, has charged people $15,000 or more for a one-hour smoking cessation session. If you're willing to pay $15,000 to quit, you're probably motivated, and also more likely to succeed. Other trainers may have the person (besides paying a fair amount of money) do tasks, such as homework exercises, before the person is taken as a client. Doing so ensures that the person is motivated to quit, which helps get better results. Dr. Michael Rabinoff says "My first tip is for you to determine the real reasons you want to quit, and to internally experience how important it is for you to quit once you know your big enough why. Take time every day to experience the feelings of how important it is for you to quit, once you know your personal reasons ... once you know your big enough why." 2. Throw away all cigarettes and related items. Toss them in the garbage. All cigarettes, matches, ashtrays, lighters, rolling papers, cigars, hookahs, logo clothing, and other items from tobacco companies that they try to use to brand you as a smoker---discard anything to do with smoking. Don't allow any of that stuff at home, at work, or in your car. Some say to put away ashtrays and lighters. I say throw them away, so that it will cost you money if you don't stick to your goal of quitting. 3. Set a quit date. Determine a definite date when you will quit (or will start a gradual scheduled reduction program --- for more information on gradual scheduled reduction, see pp. 341-3 in Ending The Tobacco Holocaust). 4. Change your identity and self-image to "I am a nonsmoker." You are no longer a smoker having a problem with quitting. Change your identity to that of a nonsmoker so that smoking isn't congruent with who you are. In a calm moment, you may want to close your eyes and visualize yourself as smoke-free, happily breathing fresh healthy air into your lungs, and feeling relaxed and refreshed doing so. The complete Dr. Mike's Top Ten Tips To Quit Smoking can be found at http://www.tobaccobook.com/Tobacco-Holocaust-Excerpts.html. More information on smoking cessation can be found in Chapter 11 of Ending The Tobacco Holocaust, pages 333 to 365. The author of Ending the Tobacco Holocaust, Michael Rabinoff D.O. Ph.D., (Elite Books, November 2006, hardcover, $24.95, ISBN 1-60070-012-8, available at local bookstores, Amazon, Borders, Barnes and Noble) is a psychiatrist with many public presentations to his credit. He has a driving passion to get the message of the book to a... To read the press release in full goto http://www.prweb.com/releases/quit_smoking/resolution/prweb493990.htm]]> Michael Rabinoff Keep Your New Year's Resolution By Using Dr. Mike's Top Ten Tips To Quit Smoking http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/tobacco/smokfact.htm). Let Dr. Michael Rabinoff, an expert in smoking cessation, help you keep your New Year's resolution by following his top ten tips to quit smoking. 1. Have a "big enough why." Spend time thinking about why you want to quit. What are your personal reasons to quit? Then write down the reasons. Post your written reasons on your refrigerator and elsewhere, and let the list remind you every day of these important reasons. It's your life, so be motivated to succeed. Some famous motivational speakers and "gurus" use "leverage" to give the smoker motivation to quit. Tony Robbins, for example, has charged people $15,000 or more for a one-hour smoking cessation session. If you're willing to pay $15,000 to quit, you're probably motivated, and also more likely to succeed. Other trainers may have the person (besides paying a fair amount of money) do tasks, such as homework exercises, before the person is taken as a client. Doing so ensures that the person is motivated to quit, which helps get better results. Dr. Michael Rabinoff says "My first tip is for you to determine the real reasons you want to quit, and to internally experience how important it is for you to quit once you know your big enough why. Take time every day to experience the feelings of how important it is for you to quit, once you know your personal reasons ... once you know your big enough why." 2. Throw away all cigarettes and related items. Toss them in the garbage. All cigarettes, matches, ashtrays, lighters, rolling papers, cigars, hookahs, logo clothing, and other items from tobacco companies that they try to use to brand you as a smoker---discard anything to do with smoking. Don't allow any of that stuff at home, at work, or in your car. Some say to put away ashtrays and lighters. I say throw them away, so that it will cost you money if you don't stick to your goal of quitting. 3. Set a quit date. Determine a definite date when you will quit (or will start a gradual scheduled reduction program --- for more information on gradual scheduled reduction, see pp. 341-3 in Ending The Tobacco Holocaust). 4. Change your identity and self-image to "I am a nonsmoker." You are no longer a smoker having a problem with quitting. Change your identity to that of a nonsmoker so that smoking isn't congruent with who you are. In a calm moment, you may want to close your eyes and visualize yourself as smoke-free, happily breathing fresh healthy air into your lungs, and feeling relaxed and refreshed doing so. The complete Dr. Mike's Top Ten Tips To Quit Smoking can be found at http://www.tobaccobook.com/Tobacco-Holocaust-Excerpts.html. More information on smoking cessation can be found in Chapter 11 of Ending The Tobacco Holocaust, pages 333 to 365. The author of Ending the Tobacco Holocaust, Michael Rabinoff D.O. Ph.D., (Elite Books, November 2006, hardcover, $24.95, ISBN 1-60070-012-8, available at local bookstores, Amazon, Borders, Barnes and Noble) is a psychiatrist with many public presentations to his credit. He has a driving passion to get the message of the book to a... To read the press release in full goto http://www.prweb.com/releases/quit_smoking/resolution/prweb493990.htm]]> 00:15:00 no